Sources

ABBREVIATIONS

AdR Papers

Author’s Private Papers

AM

Archivio Memmo, Biblioteca Mai, Bergamo

ASF

Archivio di Stato di Firenze

ASV

Archivio di Stato di Venezia

JMA

John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh

LPD

Lucia’s Paris Diary

CHAPTER ONE: ROME

1. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Rome, 25 April 1786, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

2. Lucia to Alvise, Naples, 21 February 1786, AdR Papers.

3. Lucia to Alvise, Naples, 28 February 1786, AdR Papers.

4. Lucia to Alvise, Naples, 7 March 1786, AdR Papers.

5. Ibid.

6. The medical report signed by Professor Perlasca is in the Biblioteca Civica Correr di Venezia, Manoscritti, misc. ix, 1138. On the death of Lucia’s mother, see A Venetian Affair, by Andrea di Robilant, New York: Knopf, 2003.

7. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Rome, 30 April 1785, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

8. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Rome, 17 September 1783, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

9. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Rome, 22 May 1784, AdR Papers.

10. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Rome, 12 March 1785, AdR Papers.

11. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Rome, 16 October 1784, AdR Papers.

12. On Memmo’s election to Procuratore di San Marco, see Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Rome, 9 July 1785, and Rome, 13 August 1785, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

13. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Rome, 30 April 1785, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

14. On the arrest of Sebastiano Mocenigo by the Inquisitors, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 120–122.

15. Sebastiano Mocenigo to Alvise, Brescia, 19 November 1778, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

16. Pisana Mocenigo to Alvise, undated, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 124.

17. Alvise to Sebastiano Mocenigo, 13 March 1781, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 120.

18. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Rome, 20 May 1786, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

19. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Rome, 13 May 1786, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B16.

20. Alvise Mocenigo to Sebastiano Mocenigo, undated, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 120.

21. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 18 March 1786, AdR Papers.

22. Ibid.

23. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 1 April 1786, AdR Papers.

24. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, undated, AdR Papers.

25. Lucia to Alvise, Rome undated, AdR Papers.

26. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 8 April 1786, AdR Papers.

27. Ibid.

28. Lucia to Alvise, 27 May 1786, AdR Papers.

29. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Naples, 17 January 1786, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 16.

30. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Rome, 2 February 1786, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 16.

31. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Rome, 22 April 1786, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 16.

32. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 1 April 1786, AdR Papers.

33. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, April 1786, AdR Papers.

34. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, May 1786, AdR Papers.

35. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 27 May 1786, AdR Papers.

36. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 3 June 1786, AdR Papers.

37. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 27 May 1786, AdR Papers.

38. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 1 and 15 July 1786, AdR Papers.

39. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 17 June 1786, AdR Papers.

40. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 10 June 1786, AdR Papers.

41. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Rome, 10 June 1786, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 12.

42. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Rome, 18 March 1786, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 12.

43. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Rome, 7 July 1786, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 12.

44. Ibid.

45. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 10 June 1786, AdR Papers.

46. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Rome, 12 August 1786, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 12.

47. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 24 June 1786, AdR Papers.

48. Chiara Zen Mocenigo to Lucia, Venice, 22 June 1786, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

49. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 1 July 1786, AdR Papers.

50. Ibid.

51. Ibid.

52. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 15 July 1786, AdR Papers.

53. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Rome, 17 August 1784, AdR Papers.

54. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 26 August 1786, AdR Papers.

55. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 2 September 1786, AdR Papers.

56. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, August 1786, AdR Papers.

57. Ibid.

58. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 23 September 1786, AdR Papers.

59. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 2 September 1786, AdR Papers.

60. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Rome, 7 July 1786, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

61. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 14 October 1786, AdR Papers.

62. Ibid.

63. Lucia to Alvise, Rome, 23 September and 7 October 1786, AdR Papers.

64. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Mira, 13 November 1786, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

65. Andrea Memmo to Guglielmo Chiarabba, Florence, 28 October 1786, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

66. Lucia to Alvise, Florence, October 1786, AdR Papers (torn, mud-splattered note).

CHAPTER TWO: PALAZZO MOCENIGO

1. Lucia to Alvise, Venice, undated, AdR Papers.

2. Lucia to Alvise, Venice, March 1787, AdR Papers.

3. Lucia to Alvise, Venice, April 1787, AdR Papers.

4. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Venice, 11 August 1787, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

5. The quotes in this paragraph are taken from undated, hand-delivered messages from Lucia to Alvise, AdR Papers.

6. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Venice, 20 February 1787, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

7. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Venice, 7 April 1787, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

8. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Venice, 27 September 1788, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

9. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Venice, 24 March 1787, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

10. The quotes in this paragraph are taken from undated, hand-delivered messages from Lucia to Alvise, AdR Papers.

11. Ibid.

12. Lucia to Alvise, Venice, 7 September 1788, AdR Papers.

13. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Venice, 10 March 1787, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

14. Lucia to Alvise, Dolo, 9 September 1788, and Lucia to Alvise, undated, AdR Papers.

15. Lucia to Alvise, Dolo, 18 July 1788, AdR Papers.

16. Ibid.

17. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Padua, 27 September 1788, AdR Papers.

18. Ibid.

19. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Venice, 28 July 1787, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

20. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Rome, 13 August 1785, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

21. Unsigned letter, 23 February 1788, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 120.

22. Attributed to Pietro Gradenigo, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, filza 120.

23. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Venice, 14 March 1789, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

24. Letter to the Inquisitors, 1 March 1788. On Sebastiano Mocenigo and Andrea Memmo’s campaigns in the election of 1788, see ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

25. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Venice, 27 September 1788, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

26. Andrea Memmo to Giulio Perini, Venice, 27 September 1788, ASF, Acquisti e doni 94, filza 146.

27. Lucia to Alvise, Venice, undated, AdR Papers.

28. Lucia to Alvise, Valdagno, 7 August 1789, AdR Papers.

29. Lucia to Alvise, Valdagno, 8 August 1789, AdR Papers.

30. Lucia to Alvise, Valdagno, 29 July 1789, AdR Papers.

31. Lucia to Alvise, Valdagno, 10 and 13 July 1789, AdR Papers.

32. Lucia to Alvise, Valdagno, 14 August 1789, AdR Papers.

33. Lucia to Alvise, Valdagno, undated, AdR Papers.

34. Lucia to Alvise, Valdagno, 29 August 1789, AdR Papers.

35. Lucia to Alvise, Valdagno, 28 August 1789, AdR Papers.

36. All the quotes by Foscarina come from hand-delivered, undated notes, AdR Papers.

37. Sebastiano Mocenigo to Alvise, Venice, undated, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, filza B 122.

38. Lucia’s quotes relative to her first stay in Cordovado are in letters from Lucia to Alvise over the summer of 1790, AdR Papers.

39. Lucia to Alvise, Cordovado, 28 July 1790, AdR Papers.

40. Lucia to Alvise, Dolo, 27 July 1791, AdR Papers.

41. Lucia to Alvise, Dolo, 16 and 27 June 1791, AdR Papers.

42. Lucia to Alvise, Dolo, 16 June 1791, AdR Papers.

43. Lucia to Alvise, Dolo, 8 July 1791, AdR Papers.

44. Chiara Zen Mocenigo to Lucia, Venice, 17 January 1792, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

45. Alvise did not burn the letters. They were found in a neat bundle among Lucia’s correspondence, AdR Papers.

46. Chiara Zen Mocenigo to Lucia, Venice, 23 March 1792, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

47. Lucia to Alvise, Venice, undated, AdR Papers.

48. Dinda Petrocchi Orsini to Alvise, undated letters and notes, AdR Papers.

49. Lucia to Alvise, undated, AdR Papers.

50. Ibid.

CHAPTER THREE: VIENNA

1. Caspar von Riesbeck, A General Collection of Voyages and Travels, edited by John Pinkerton, vol. VI, London: Longman, Hurst and Rees, 1809; see his description of Frankfurt.

2. Lucia to Paolina, Frankfurt, 16 July 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

3. Lucia to Paolina, on the Rhine, 22 July 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

4. Lucia to Paolina, Munich, 11 August 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

5. Lucia to Paolina, Mainz, 28 July 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

6. Riesbeck, op. cit., p. 20.

7. Ibid. p. 35.

8. Ibid. p. 47.

9. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 29 September 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

10. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 27 October 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

11. Chiara Zen Mocenigo to Lucia, Venice, 29 September 1792, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

12. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 29 September 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

13. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 3 November 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

14. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 27 October 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

15. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 3 November 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

16. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 14 November 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

17. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 24 November 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

18. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 14 November 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

19. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 15 December 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

20. For a discussion on delivery “in the chair,” see Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 22 and 26 December 1792, and 5 and 16 January 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

21. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 19 January 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

22. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 26 January 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

23. Lucia to Andrea Memmo, 12 December 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

24. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 22 December 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

25. Ibid.

26. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 26 December 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

27. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 5 January 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

28. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 6 February 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

29. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 27 February 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

30. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 5 January 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

31. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 5 March 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

32. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 26 December 1792, AM, Lettere di L.M.

33. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 27 March 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

34. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 20 March 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

35. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 3 April 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

36. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 20 March 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

37. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 27 March and 3 April 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

38. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 20 March 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

39. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 3 April 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

40. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 10 April 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

41. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 20 March 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

42. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 17 and 20 April 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

43. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 24 April 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

44. Chiara Zen Mocenigo, Venice, 24 April 1793, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

45. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 24 April 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

46. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 29 May 1793, AM, Lettere di L.M.

47. Chiara Zen Mocenigo to Lucia, Padua, 9 July 1793, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

48. Chiara Zen Mocenigo to Lucia, Padua, 4 July 1793, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

49. AdR Papers.

50. Chiara Zen Mocenigo to Lucia, Venice, 20 August 1793, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

51. Alvise to Sebastiano Mocenigo, Verona, 9 March 1795, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

52. Chiara Zen Mocenigo to Lucia, Venice, 3 April 1795, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 122.

CHAPTER FOUR: THE FALL OF VENICE

1. ASV, Delibere del Senato (Secreta), Ca. Mil., T.F., filza 23.

2. Alvise to the Senate, 29 May 1796, ASV, Delibere del Senato, Ca. Mil., T.F., filza 23.

3. Ibid.

4. From a letter by General Berthier, received by Alvise on 30 May 1796, ASV, Delibere del Senato, Ca. Mil., T.F., filza 23.

5. Alvise to the Senate, Udine, 5 April 1797, ASV, Archivio militare, T.F., filza 45.

6. Alvise to the Senate, Udine, 11 April 1797, ASV, Archivio militare, T.F., filza 46.

7. Alvise to the Senate, Udine, 15 April 1797, ASV, Archivio militare, T.F., filza 46.

8. From the Senate to Alvise, 17 April 1797, ASV, Archivio militare, T.F., filza 46.

9. George McClellan, Venice and Bonaparte, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1931, p. 192, and Amable de Fournoux, Napoléon et Venise 1797–1814, Paris: Editions de Fallois, 2002, p. 89.

10. de Fournoux, op. cit., p. 100.

11. Lodovico Manin, Memorie del Dogado, Venice: Ongania, 1886, p. 24.

12. Alvise Mocenigo et al. to the Senate, Codroipo, 10 May 1797. Quoted by Giovanni Di Stefano e Giannantonio Paladini in Storia di Venezia 1797–1997, Venice: Supernova-Grafiche, 1997.

13. de Fournoux, op. cit., p. 102.

14. Alvise to Chiara Zen Mocenigo, Vienna, 22 May, 1801, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

15. Il Monitore, 7 June 1797, Collezione Biblioteca nazionale marciana.

16. Ibid., 16 and 18 September 1797.

17. Ibid., 18 September 1797.

CHAPTER FIVE: COLONEL PLUNKETT

1. From an undated entry in Alvise’s Cahier de Lettres begun on 5 November, 1800, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

2. The passports are dated 28 June 1798, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 28.

3. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 27 July 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

6. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 5 August 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

7. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 12 September 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

8. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 2 August 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

9. Maximilian Plunkett to Paolina, Florence, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

10. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 12 September 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

11. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 2 August 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

12. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 13 October 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

13. Alvise’s travelling papers, dated 23 March 1799, are in ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 28.

14. For a description of Colonel Plunkett’s role in the 1799 campaign in Switzerland, see Geschichte des K. und K. Infanterie-Regiments Freiherr von Appel n. 60, Erlau, Vienna: Kriegs Archiv, 1898.

15. Lucia to Paolina, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

16. See Geschichte.

17. Undated entry, Cahier de Lettres, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

18. Entry of 26 July, 1801, Cahier de Lettres, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid.

CHAPTER SIX: VIENNESE CAROUSEL

1. Entry of 5 November 1800, Cahier de Lettres, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

2. Undated entry, Cahier de Lettres, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

3. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 6 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

4. Ibid.

5. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 10 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

6. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 11 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

7. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 14 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

8. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 9 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

9. Ibid.

10. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 8 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

11. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 30 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

12. Lucia to Paolina, Toeplitz, 6 August 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

13. Lucia to Paolina, Teschen, 7 August 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

14. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 4 September 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

15. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, September 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

16. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 14 September 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

17. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 23 October 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

18. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 8 October 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

19. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, September 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

20. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 12 November 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

21. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 11 October and 12 November 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

22. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 12 November 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

23. Lucia to Paolina, Abano, 14 April 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

24. Lucia to Paolina, Magarethen, 8 January 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

25. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 25 December 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

26. Ibid.

27. Lucia to Paolina, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

28. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 4 January 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

29. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 12 February 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

30. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 13 March 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

31. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 26 May 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

32. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 25 December 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

33. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 19 February 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

34. Ibid.

35. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 23 February 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

36. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

37. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 4 February 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

38. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, undated 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE EDUCATION OF ALVISETTO

1. The contents of this letter were kindly provided to me by Marco Leeflang and are quoted by Lolo Clary in his diary (entry of 6 September 1803). See Lolo, Le journal du Comte Charles Joseph Clary-Aldringen, Tome 2 (1803–1814), ed. Marco Leeflang, Utrecht: Marco Leeflang 1998, p. 92.

2. Baptismal Registry in the Archivio Patriarcale di Venezia.

3. Ibid.

4. Lucia to Paolina, Alvisopoli, 20 November 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

5. Ibid.

6. Lucia to Paolina, Alvisopoli, 24 November 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

7. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, May 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

8. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 5 January, AM, Lettere di L.M.

9. Ibid.

10. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 24 October 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

11. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 31 March 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

12. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 7 September 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

13. Ibid.

14. Maria Contarini to Alvise, Vienna, 24 February 1804, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 126.

15. Ibid.

16. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 31 October 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

17. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 22 September 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

18. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 19 April 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

19. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 30 October 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

20. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 22 June 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

21. Details on Robertson’s projects were drawn from Wonderful Balloon Ascents by Fulgence Marion, translated from the French, London 1870 (etext also available on the Project Gutenberg website). See in particular Chapter VII.

22. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 31 October 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

23. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 21 November 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

24. Ibid.

25. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 5 January 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

26. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 16 January 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

27. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 5 March 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

28. Ibid.

29. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 31 March 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

30. Lucia to Paolina, 26 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

31. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 26 April 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

32. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 6 and 21 April, AM, Lettere di L.M.

33. Ibid.

34. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 19 April 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

35. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 21 April 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

36. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 17 April 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

37. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 15 and 16 February 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

38. The contract is in ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, Carte di Alvisopoli, B 105.

39. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 9 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

40. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 6 July 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

41. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 1 July 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

42. Ibid., and Lucia to Paolina, 27 July 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

43. Ibid.

44. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 19 July 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

45. Lucia to Paolina, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

46. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 9 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

47. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 2 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

48. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 7 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

49. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 9 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

50. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 2 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

51. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 15 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

52. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 22 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

53. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 1 October 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

54. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 13 November 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

55. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 3 December 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

56. Ibid.

57. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 5 December 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

58. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 13 December 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

59. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 31 December 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

60. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 18 June 1806, AM, Lettere di L.M.

CHAPTER EIGHT: LADY-IN-WAITING

1. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 18 December 1806, AM, Lettere di L.M.

2. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 8 January 1807, AM, Lettere di L.M.

3. The notes of Monsieur Vérand are in ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

4. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 10 March 1807, AM, Lettere di L.M.

5. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 17 March 1807, AM, Lettere di L.M.

6. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 14 April 1807, AM, Lettere di L.M.

7. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 6 January 1806, AM, Lettere di L.M.

8. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 29 December 1807, AM, Lettere di L.M.

9. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 29 January 1808, AM, Lettere di L.M.

10. Ibid.

11. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 8 February 1808, AM, Lettere di L.M.

12. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 27 January 1808, AM, Lettere di L. M.

13. Alvise to Paolina, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

14. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 27 January 1808, AM, Lettere di L.M.

15. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 17 December 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

16. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 21 January 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

17. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 13 February 1808, and 3 March 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

18. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 16 April 1808, AM, Lettere di L.M.

19. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 22 April 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

20. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 6 December 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

21. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 21 January 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

22. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 6 December 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

23. Quoted in Joséphine, by Ernest John Knapton, Milan: Mondadori, 1992, p. 284.

24. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 4, 13 and 19 March 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

25. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 13 April 1810, and Compiègne, 20 April 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

26. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 28 March 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

27. Ibid.

28. Ibid.

29. For details on Empress Marie Louise’s first days at Compiègne, see Trois mois à Paris, lors du mariage de l’Empereur Napoléon I et de l’Archiduchesse Marie Louise, by Prince Charles Clary-Aldringen, Paris: Plon, 1914.

30. Lucia to Paolina, Compiègne, 20 April 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

31. Ibid.

32. Ibid.

33. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 14 May 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

34. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 28 May and 6 June 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

35. Trois mois à Paris, p. 59.

36. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 14 June 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

37. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 7 May 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

38. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 14, 28 May 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

39. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 11 June 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

40. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 8 July 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

41. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 11 June 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

42. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 14 July 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

43. Lucia to Alvisetto, Milan, 19 January 1811, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146

44. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 1 and 6 April 1812, Archivio Memmo, Lettere di L.M.

45. The letter by Doctor Paletta is in Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 31 May 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

46. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 24 June 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

47. Lucia to Paolina, Vicenza, 28 July 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

48. Lucia to Paolina, Vicenza, 30 July 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

49. Alvisetto to Lucia, quoted in Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 6 August 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

50. Alvise’s comments are transcribed in a letter from Lucia to Paolina, Vicenza, 13 August 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

51. Ibid.

52. Lucia to Paolina, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

53. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 23 December 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

54. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, December 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

55. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 23 September 1812, and 3 March 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

56. Lucia to Paolina, Vercelli, 7 April 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

CHAPTER NINE: A YEAR IN PARIS

1. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 25 April and 27 May 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

2. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 25 October 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

3. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 20 May 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

4. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 26 July 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

5. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 19 April 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

6. Lucia’s Paris Diary (LPD), ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

7. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 8 July 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

8. LPD, January 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

9. LPD, 4 June 1813, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

10. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 20 June 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

11. LPD, 12 May 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

12. LPD, 18 June 1813, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

13. LPD, 18 August 1813, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

14. LPD, 1 August 1813, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

15. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 16 July 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

16. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 21 June and 16 July 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

17. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 3 August 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

18. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 5 October 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

19. Ibid.

20. Alvise’s letter is quoted in Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 16 October 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

21. LPD, 14 November 1813, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

22. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 30 November 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

23. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 17 October 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

24. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 16 December 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

25. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 26 December 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

26. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 25 October 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

27. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 7 and 16 December 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

28. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 10 March 1814, AM, Lettere di L.M.

29. The quotes in this paragraph are taken from LPD, 22 February 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

30. LPD, 15 March 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

31. LPD, 13 February 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

32. LPD, 4 March 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

33. LPD, 29 March 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

34. LPD, 31 March 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

35. LPD, 1 April 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

36. Ibid.

37. Ibid.

38. LPD, 10 April 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

39. LPD, 5 April 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

40. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 13 April 1814, AM, Lettere di L.M.

41. LPD, 12 April 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

42. LPD, 26 June 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

43. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 17 May 1814, AM, Lettere di L.M.

44. LPD, 26 June 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

45. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 29 May 1814, AM, Lettere di L.M.

46. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 3 May 1814, AM, Lettere di L.M.

47. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 27 May 1814, AM, Lettere di L.M.

48. LPD, 16 April 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

49. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 29 July 1814, AM, Lettere di L.M.

50. LPD, 23 June 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

51. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 20 June 1814, AM, Lettere di L.M.

52. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 22 June 1814, AM, Lettere di L.M.

53. LPD, 17 June 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

54. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 6 May 1814, AM, Lettere di L.M.

55. Lucia to Paolina, 10 March and 12 June 1814, AM, Lettere di L.M.

56. LPD, 16 August 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

57. LPD, 24 August 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

58. LPD, 25 September 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

CHAPTER TEN: BYRON’S LANDLADY

1. Lucia to Vérand, 28 January 1815, and Lucia to Alvisetto, 2 December 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

2. Lucia to Paolina, 8 August 1815, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

3. Paolina to Alvise, undated, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo.

4. Lucia to Alvisetto, 18 August 1815, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

5. Lucia to Alvisetto, 28 August 1815, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

6. Lucia to Alvisetto, 9 March 1815, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

7. Lucia to Vérand, 28 January 1815, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

8. Lucia to Alvisetto, undated, 1815, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

9. Lucia to Alvisetto, 12 August 1815, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

10. Lucia to Paolina, 15 October 1815, AM, Lettere di L.M.

11. Alvise’s will, Venice, 15 September 1815, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo.

12. Lucia to Paolina, Castel Gomberto, 28 May 1816, AM, Lettere di L.M.

13. Lucia to Carlo del Prà, 13 March 1816, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo.

14. Lucia to Paolina, Castel Gomberto, 28 May 1816, AM, Lettere di L.M.

15. Ibid.

16. Lucia to Paolina, Alvisopoli, 26 July 1816, AM, Lettere di L.M.

17. Lucia to Vérand, Alvisopoli, 9 October 1816, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

18. Lucia, undated, 1817, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

19. Lucia to Paolina, Alvisopoli, 7 October 1817, AM, Lettere di L.M.

20. Ibid.

21. Lucia to Giovanni Lazzaroni, 3 July 1818, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, various letters.

22. Lucia to Paolina, 5 September 1817, B.M. Archivio Memmo, Lettere di L.M. and Lucia to Vérand, Alvisopoli, 22 October 1816, and 7 October 1817, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo.

23. Lucia to Vérand, Alvisopoli, 22 October 1816, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

24. Lucia to Vérand, 7 October 1817, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo.

25. Lucia’s petition is dated 19 February 1818, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 105.

26. Byron to Thomas Moore, Venice, 17 November 1816, in Leslie A. Marchand (ed.), Byron’s Letters and Journals, London: John Murray, 1973–94.

27. Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Ravenna, 20 July 1820, in Byron’s Letters.

28. Byron to Thomas Moore, Venice, 1 June 1818, in Byron’s Letters.

29. The suspension is dated 22 June 1818, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 105.

30. Lucia to Paolina, Este, 6 November 1818, AM, Lettere di L.M.

31. Lucia to Paolina, Este, 3 November 1818, AM, Lettere di L.M.

32. Byron to Murray, Ravenna, 1 August 1819, in Byron’s Letters.

33. Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 19 January 1819, in Byron’s Letters.

34. Lucia to Vérand, 23 April 1819, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

35. Lucia to Vérand, 30 April 1819 and 7 May 1819, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

36. Lucia to Vérand, 26 May 1819, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

37. Lucia to Vérand, 2 June 1819, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

38. Alexander Scott to Byron, 27 July 1819, JMA.

39. Byron to Henry d’Orville, 9 August 1819, in Byron’s Letters.

40. Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, Venice, 20 November 1819, JMA.

41. Byron to Hoppner, Ravenna, 31 March 1820, JMA.

42. Hoppner to Byron, Venice, 15 April 1820, JMA.

43. Byron to Hoppner, Ravenna, 22 April 1820, in Byron’s Letters.

44. Hoppner to Byron, Venice, May 1820, JMA.

45. Byron to Hoppner, Ravenna, 20 May 1820, in Byron’s Letters.

46. Byron to Hoppner, Ravenna, 12 June 1820, in Byron’s Letters.

47. Hoppner to Byron, Bassano, 21 June 1820, JMA.

48. Byron to Hoppner, Ravenna, 12 June 1820, in Byron’s Letters.

49. Hoppner to Byron, Bassano, 21 June 1820, JMA.

50. Ibid.

51. Hoppner to Byron, Venice, 12 July 1820, JMA.

52. Ibid.

53. Byron to Hoppner, Ravenna, 20 July 1820, in Byron’s Letters.

54. Ibid.

55. Hoppner to Byron, Bassano, 21 June 1820, JMA.

56. Lucia to Paolina, Alvisopoli, 16 October 1827, AM, Lettere di L.M.

57. Lucia to Paolina, Padua, 9 September 1820, AM, Lettere di L.M.

58. Lucia to Antonio Canova, Venice, 10 July 1821. Manoscritti Canoviani. Museo Civico di Bassano del Grappa.

59. Lucia to Paolina, Padua, 7 July 1820, AM, Lettere di L.M.

EPILOGUE

1. René de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’outre-tombe, Les Livres de Poche, Garnier, vol. 4, pp. 620–1.

2. Lucia to Paolina, Alvisopoli, 30 October 1826, AM, Lettere di L.M.

3. Lucia to Paolina, 13 November 1830, AM, Lettere di L.M.

4. Quoted in Lucia to Paolina, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

5. Adolfo Bernardello, La prima ferrovia, Venezia, 1996, p. 279, n. 131.

6. Paolo Prunas (ed.), Venezia negli anni 1848 e 1849, Florence, 1931, vol. 1, p. 21.

7. Anatole de la Forge, Histoire de la République de Venise sous Manin, quoted by Piero Del Negro in Storia di Venezia, L’Ottocento e il Novecento, Rome: Enciclopedia Treccani, p. 119.

8. Marco Meriggi, Il Regno Lombardo-Veneto, Turin: Utet, 1987, p. 324

9. Lucia to Paolina, Castel Gomberto, 28 May 1816, AM, Lettere di L.M.

10. Lucia to Paolina, Venice, 5 November 1842, AM, Lettere di L.M.

11. Lucia’s will, dated Venice, 7 March 1854, is in ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 41.

12. Alvisetto to Lucia, Florence, 7 September 1848, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 150.

13. Alvisetto to Lucia, Florence, 1 November 1848, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 150.

14. Alvisetto to Lucia, Florence, 10 December 1848, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 150.

15. Alvisetto to Lucia, Florence, 22 December 1848, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 150.

16. Alvisetto to Lucia, Florence, 30 December 1848, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 150.

17. Alvisetto to the agent Pasqualini, Alvisopoli, 26 March 1849, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 150.

18. Alvisetto to Lucia, 3 September 1849, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo.

19. Mary Lutyens (ed.), Effie in Venice, London: Pallas Athene, 1999, p. 98.

20. Ibid., pp. 116–20.

21. Ibid., p. 122.

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